Clothes hanger



June 28, 1938. o. vEccHlo CLOTHES HANGER Filed NOV. 12, 1937 Inventor I Patented June 28, 1938 UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE Claims.

My invention relates to a new and useful clothes hanger and has for one of its objects to provide an exceedingly simple and effective device of this character having means for support- 5 ing several garments, for instance a coat and two pairs of trousers, in separated relation.

Another object of the present invention is to construct a clothes hanger in which a single piece of wire is fashioned or bent to provide a coat hanger, a trousers hanger and the shanks of a clamp for use as another trousers hanger.

A further object of this invention is to so arrange the parts of the wire that one of the shanks of the clamp is formed with one curved portion of the coat hanger and the other shank of said clamp is formed with the other curved portion of said coat hanger, thus producing a novel structural arrangement.

With the above and other objects in view this invention consists of the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describe its construction, referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof, in which:-

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a clothes hanger constructed in accordance with my invention, the

clamp being illustrated in an open position.

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

p In carrying out my invention as herein embodied 5 and 6 represent clamp shanks which are formed by coiling both ends of a wire upon themselves and from these shanks, in endwise alignment therewith, extend the necks l and 8 hav-v ing their outer end bent to form hook portions 9 and I0. Said neck and hook portions are produced by coiling parts of the wire upon themselves. From the lower ends of the necks extend the curved shoulder portions II and I2 of the coat hanger, said shoulder portions extending in opposite .directions and from the lower ends of these shoulder portions project the lateral extensions l3 and I4 which support the bar IS.

The hook portions 9 and I0 coact to function as a fulcrum for the clamp shanks 5 and 6 and said hook portions may be fastened together in any suitable manner and for purposes of illustration said hook portions are shown as attached by the use of solder [6.

The lower or free ends of the shanks carry the clamp jaws l1 and I8 which are drawn together by the slide IS on the necks 1 and 8.

As will be obvious the bar I5 is located to one side of a vertical plane through the meeting faces of the clamp jaws l1 and IB so that one pair of trousers may be clamped between the clamp jaws and another pair may be supported in folded position on the bar I5 beside the first mentioned pair of trousers. Other clothing such as a coat and/or vest may be placed on the coat hanger comprising the two shoulder portions H and I2.

The device is relatively inexpensive because the major portion is produced from a single strand and it will be obvious that even the clamp jaws can be fashioned from the same strand of wire.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact details of construction herein shown and described, as these may be varied within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is:-

1. A clothes hanger comprising a bar, extensions at the ends of said bar, curved shoulder portions projecting inwardly and upwardly to meet each other, necks projecting upwardly from the meeting ends of said shoulder portions, hook portions formed from the necks, shanks projecting downwardly from. the meeting ends of said shoulder portions and in endwise alignment with the necks, jaws on the free ends of said shanks, and means to draw said jaws together.

2. A clothes hanger fashioned from a single piece of Wire and comprising shanks produced by twisting the ends upon themselves, necks formed by twisting intermediate parts of the wire, one strand of each neck being curved outwardly and downwardly to form shoulder portions, said. shoulder portions projecting in opposite directions, an extension projecting laterally from the lower end of each shoulder portion, a bar between said extensions, jaws on the lower ends of the shanks, and a slide on the necks to draw the jaws together.

3. The structure in claim 2 wherein the necks are bent to produce hook portions and said hook portions being fastened together.

4. In a clothes hanger, a bar, shoulder portions extending from the ends of the bar upward and inward to a meeting point above said bar, the meeting ends of said shoulder portions being unattached, a shank depending from the meeting end of each shoulder portion, clamp jaws on the lower ends of said shanks, a neck projecting upwardly from the meeting end of each shoulder portion in parallelism, and means engaging said necks for forcing them and the shanks and the clamp jaws together.

5. In a. clothes hanger, a bar, shoulder portion extending from the ends of the bar and terminating contiguous one another above said bar thereby providing free ends, means carried by the free end of each shoulder portion and extending above and below the respective free end, a clamp jaw on the lower end of each of said means, and a slide engaging both of said means above the free ends of the shoulder portions to force said means together to close the clamp jaws.

ORAZIO VECCHIO. 

